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Couple of cubs to kick off August. Make your weekend amazing. Happy Friday. - - - - - - - - - -

"Grizzly Bear Cubs" by DenaliNPS is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[forestcub]

pssst

if you have uncommon kins or links… you’re so cool

[forestcub]

love being a big fluffy bear ... im so huggable, i love hugs!!! >..<

[forestcub]

could I wake up tomorrow and be a little grey cloud? Floating across fields. Please? I'm sure my family will be fine, I can comeback after I float float float, and form into a storm cloud. A beautiful collective. Once the storm is over, and we all evaporate, I can go back, to my "home" wake up again, like nothing happened, but the storm is just as much as my home. But not the one I have to return to. One day I won't have to. One day

[forestcub]

Howdy!! Any tips for a white tail deer? Thank you for your time friend!☆

Absolutely, friend. So sorry for the wait.

Pay attention to sounds around you. Notice the rustle of leaves, the chirp of birds, the distant hum of traffic (if you can't avoid it, pretend it's a rushing stream).

Take walks in nature and try to identify scents. Freshly cut grass, pine needles, blooming flowers - what stories do their smells tell?

Before you get up in the morning, do some gentle stretches like a deer waking up in the meadow.

When you walk, try to move quietly and deliberately. Notice how the ground feels beneath your bare feet (if safe to do so) or your shoes.

Spend time people-watching (or squirrel-watching!) from a safe distance. What are the patterns in their movements?

Put on some calming nature sounds while you relax or study. Close your eyes and picture yourself in a peaceful meadow, or wherever ya came from!

[forestcub]

Kin without Ableism

Identifying as otherkin or having kintypes can be a fantastic coping mechanism or a spiritual belief, however, neither coping nor spirituality are exempt from potentially being ableist.  

Please don’t:

Use the word “system” to describe your collection of kintypes. This is a word used by people with Dissociative Identity Disorder to describe the collection of identities severe childhood trauma split off. This is not appropriate to use for kin. This especially goes for alter- alters are trauma-split identity fragments in DID, not kintypes. I’d prefer you not use “headmates” either, regardless of what kin experiences you’re using the word to describe, there’s probably a better word to use.

Use the word fronting to describe kinshifts. Instead of, “Keith is fronting right now,” please try “I’m kinshifting Keith,” “I’m really feeling Keith right now,” etc. Fronting is related to alters and DID. It’s not appropriate to use for kin. 

Claim amnesia between kinshifts. Kinshifts are shifts of your identity, how you feel, how you react to situations. You shouldn’t have memory issues or a different core identity between kinshifts, and if you do, you need to seek professional help because you could be having seizures or another serious issue. 

Intentionally fracture off parts of yourself or treat specific kintypes as “not you.”

Diagnose your kintypes with mental illnesses and claim to have those mental illnesses because of kintypes. If you feel like you might have a severe mental illness, it’s up to you to cope with that and work on feeling better. 

Equate kin memories to repressed memories or “true” body memories. If a part of your spirituality is believing in past lives and you have memories of your kintypes, that’s great! However, equating it to recovered trauma memories, body memories (things you’ve experienced in this lifetime), etc is ableist. 

Don’t take up trauma survivor’s spaces based on kin memories of trauma. If you have a kintype that’s survived CSA, you may not claim space as a CSA survivor unless you’ve experienced that trauma in this body/life. If you have repressed trauma, it could present as nightmares and you could misinterpret that as kin memories. If you have nightmares of trauma or think you have traumatic kin memories, it’s definitely worth looking into with a therapist. You could be recovering memories and it would be damaging to cast them aside as kin memories. 

Please do:

Seek professional help if kintypes make you feel worse. If you feel out of control, if you feel like kintypes are controlling you or hurting yourself/others, if you feel disconnected from reality, if you have vivid or traumatic kin memories, if you have hallucinations/delusions, if kintypes make you feel worse instead of better at any point, please seek professional help. There could be something else going on.

Do educate yourself on the differences between tulpas, soulbonds, kintypes, etc and alters. Fictives (fictional introjects) are a type of alter, which again are specific to DID. Alters are split off from severe childhood trauma, and fictives are just alters who have similar grounded identities to that of fictional characters. This is not equatable to kintypes, IDs, soulbonds, etc. 

Listen to members of marginalized groups and keep your coping and spiritual beliefs free of ableism, racism, transphobia, etc!

Use your kintypes to make yourself a better person! It can be a powerful coping tool and a powerful tool for spirituality! If you’re using kin to cope with trauma, mental illness, everyday life, etc, that’s great. I’m pro-kin, just not pro-ableism and silencing of trauma survivors!

Kintypes are not the same as alters. The core difference is that kintypes are you, whereas alters are split from severe dissociation and trauma and are not you. It’s disrespectful and ableist to equate these. 

Most of the time, kintypes and related beliefs and behaviors can be changed and directed. If your behavior is ableist, racist, or unhealthy for you, it can be changed for the positive! Coping behaviors and spiritual beliefs are not exempt from criticism. 

[forestcub]

Hiya! Was wondering if I could get a crow mood board with themes of Halloween/fall? Preferably based around orange/black?

I'm halloweenkin and crowlink and these make me very happy :)

Thank you if you do if you don't wanna that's cool too! Thank you very much!

- @w1theredw1ldflowers

🎃 ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ @w1theredw1ldflowers ୧ ⋆ ˚｡⋆ 🎃

K9: Hope this looks right!! Enjoy!!

[forestcub]

Pssst...can i get a steampunk concepthearted stimboard?.....themes of inventing and space pls...and lots of brass and gold copper ect.

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Hii I’ve never met a conceptkin before I had to do some research but it sounds rlly cool I hope u like this stimboard ^^

[forestcub]

Could I get a DBH androidkin wallpaper with the alter human symbol or a canid (dogs,wolves, coyotes) with cowboy theme and the therian symbol? I love your wallpapers and mood boards so much!!!

here you go, I hope you enjoy! RAAAAGHHHH I LOVE DBH!!! actually kinda questioning an androidkin myself lol

[forestcub]

CREATURES IN LOVE!!!!!!!

Thank you for listening.

[forestcub]

i wish there was more conceptkin content out there. if you’re conceptkin, feel free to reblog and share your conceptkins!

mine are the concept of liminal spaces + bear cubs in children’s books. and honestly, there’s probably more but i’m still figuring it out!

[forestcub]

intro! 🐻

hi!! you can call me lorenzo or bramble, i use he/him, and i’m nineteen.

this is my side blog for otherkin stuff as well as some petre here and there!

my current kin list:

angelkin + general divinekin

bearkin

questioning deerkin

conceptkins:

bear cubs from children’s books

liminal spacekin

stormkin / rainkin

hearthomes:

bear country (the berenstain bears)

club penguin

(this list is being constantly revised as i figure things out)

my angelkin blog: @gilded-divine

my agere blog: @starry-agere

[forestcub]

people will be like 'proud mama bear 🐻💞👶👶' but then don't teach their kids how to catch whole salmons in their mouth at the river

[forestcub]

could i request a caribou theriotype wallpaper? can it have dark forest/cottagecore themes?

here you go, I hope you enjoy! love seeing more deer therians :D

[forestcub]

Made some moodboards to express my love and connection with liminal spaces!

First one is overgrown liminals spaces, second is poolrooms, third is abandoned malls, and fourth is kidcore/nostalgia

[forestcub]

*muffled* for u :3

[forestcub]

hi :3 could i get a baby deer moodboard with themes of cabins and/or snow pls?

baby deer alterhuman moodboard with themes of cabins and snow!